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This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world 

This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world 

Alex Saum-Pascual proposes that new artistic representations could help bridge the gap between knowing a technology is harmful and actually changing our behavior It’s easy to forget that the cloud isn’t an amorphous ball of fluff, says UC Berkeley Professor Alex Saum-Pascual — that it is, in fact, physical internet infrastructure that takes many forms in many…
As chatbots get smarter, humans’ unique language abilities are becoming less special

As chatbots get smarter, humans’ unique language abilities are becoming less special

UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained “metalinguistic ability,” a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed AI platforms like ChatGPT are widely understood to be sophisticated prediction machines. Trained on vast troves of content ranging from news articles and books to film scripts and Reddit posts, they anticipate…
UC Berkeley professor discusses AI and language learning in a 101-second video

With AI and linguistics, this professor is decoding how animals and humans communicate

Watch a UC Berkeley linguistics professor explain his work in just 101 seconds. When Gašper Beguš began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. “Nobody cared about linguistics,” he says in this episode of 101 in 101, a series from UC Berkeley that challenges professors and other experts to distill the…

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